Adjustable lid support



April 1935. C IHAMMERSLEY 1,997,517

ADJUSTABLE LID SUPPORT Filed Dec. 1, 1933 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 J Inventor 1;.) in place. i claim as newis:

Patented Apr. 9, 1935 r i I I i UNITED. STATES PATENT ()FFICEE y 1 ,997,517 v i ADJUSTABLE LID SUPPORT Charles Hammersley, Jeffersonville, Ind. Application Decemberl, 1933, SerialNo. 7005607 zciai ms. (c1. ZIP-61) The present invention relates to a support across the body 9; In installing the support the i for the lids of cigar boxes and the like so as to portion It is slid into slit8 and the body 9 is on display the contents of the box and the labels the outside of the lid and the portions l and l I i usually found on the inside of the lid to adon the inside of the lid. When the lid is raised 5 vantage. and the supportis slid down to the position 5 The object of the invention is to provide a shown in Figure 2 t hand e portion l2 Will,

support of this nature which is simple in its rest on the edge of the rear wall of the box and construction, inexpensive to manufacture, easy, thus hold the lid in anuD ht rearward y l to manipulate, handy to install and remove ne po i n t p y label to st adv nta e 10 and otherwise well adapted to the purpose. for By li p 11 the handle portion l2 the lid 10 which it i designed may be easily closed as will be seen to advantage With the above and numerous other objects in Figllle v inview as will appear as the description pros. It lS thought that the construction, operacoeds, the invention consists in certain novel tion; and advantages o s invention Will now 15 features of construction, and inthe combinaquite apparent t those Skilled in this a t 15m tion and arrangement of partsag 111 h i without a more detailed description thereof.- afterbe m re fully des ribed d l d, 'lPhe present embodiment of the invention has In th drawin s; been described in considerable detail merely for Figure 1 represents a front l tie of an the purposes of exemplification since in actual Open 00X, a portion of the front .wall being; practice it attains the features of advantage 20 broken away and my support being mounted on enumerated as desirable in the statement of the lid. v i v the invention and theabove description.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section there- It Will be pp that Changes n h through. i t i tails of construction, and in 'thecombination :5 Figure 3 is a vertical transverse section and atl'angement f Parts m y h o d 11025 through the box showing the lid in closed posi- W ut departing from h p r s p .Q tion. I the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrific Figure 4 is a fragmentary rear elevation of y its advantages the box showing the lid o en with my support av t u described yin nt r what I H I Figure 5 is a fragmentary rear elevation show- -A d V for Supporting the d o a hOX in ing' the lid closed. i raised position comprising anelongated strip of I Figure 6 is a perspective view of the support, flat stoclcof considerable width having one end and bent into u shape to provide a long limb and Figure 7 is a detail rear elevation of the box a short limb. s d limbs being st a t and par- 3 showing the slit provided in the flexible hinge allelins each e the space etw n the limbs for accommodating my support. i j receiving the rear edge of a lid, withthe long Referring to the drawings in detail it will be b t the p o the l d and the short seen that numeral 5' denotes an ordinary cigar limb engaging a part O the underface 0f the i box or the like and numeral 3 the;ordinary 11d lid, the extremity of the short limb being bent i0 therefor connected therewith by the usual cloth outwardly at light angles to provide a h or flexible hinge structure '1. One end of this and a part for engagmg h edge of the rear hinge Structure is cut to provide'a slit 8 as wall of the box when the lid is in raised posishown to advantage in Figure 7 as also indicated tlqrfand devlce moved: rearwardlyion the I t in Figure 5 My Support is formed from a Single said handle and the two limbs occupying a comsheet *of metal to provide an elongated body 9' gig gizgg g f w g the lsmhholflb a from the bottom end which extends i h I 2. A device supporting the lid of-a box in angulally arportion merging into an upstand" raised position comprising an elongated strip ihg portion U P e t th body 9 v having one end bent into U-shape to provide turn mer es into an outwardly directed along limb and a short limb, the extremity of tion I2 ben unde 1111011 itself, and f i the short limb being bent outwardly at right handle. The upp end O the Plate 9 has 011 one angles, the two limbs and the outwardly bent end thereof a right angle extension 14 merging part Occupying a commonverti al planewhen intoa right angle extension I5 disposed parallel the device is in horizontal position and an angle j55 shaped member at the free end of the long limb, said member providing a long part and a short part, the short part being connected to a side edge of the long limb and being of the same Width as the width of the bight of the U- shaped part, the long part extending transversely in spaced relation across the said free end of the long limb and said long part lying in the same horizontal plane as the short limb of the U-shaped part, when the device is in horizontal position.

CHARLES HAMMERSLEY, 

